AUSA 2024: Quantum-Systems targets big 2025 with UAS developments
Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is on the hunt for a new UAC capability under a project dubbed Polar 2015.
Unmanned systems, including UUV platforms, have brought a range of new capabilities to Antarctic operations and are thought of as an enabling technology by those within the BAS.
The BAS is currently undertaking trials with a range of UAS platforms, including fixed-wing and commercial rotorcraft. The current uses of such systems include observation, inspection and route-finding through difficult terrain for both land and sea based assets.
On 20 October the organisation issued a request for interest (RoI) from interested industry
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Quantum-Systems has been upgrading its UAS family, with new versions of the Vector, Reliant and Twister drones set for release throughout 2025.
The service has been using a Directed Requirement (DR) approach to speed up the deployment of a Medium Range Reconnaissance capability.
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Funds for the second phase of this effort will be allocated in the US Department of Defense (DoD) FY2026 budget request.